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    ヨウゴキョウユ ヨウ セイキョウイク ノ ドウコウ シツモンシチョウサ カラ ノ ケントウ ダイイッポウ

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    Social environments around children have been changed widely and issues of school have become more and more complex and divers. There are movement that parents and citizen need for teachers higher quality and education.In order to solve the health problem that contemporary children seriously have, we have to consider how to improve quality of Yogo teacher through expanding role and making education of Yogo teachers satisfactory.Then this study treats the trend of the education of Yogo teacher in our college and questioner about college education through incumbent students and Yogo teachers at the result of this research, it came out that they want four- years college. And promoting ability of nursing that is required for Yogo teacher is important issue in future

    Suppressive Effect of Shiitake Extract on Plasma Ethanol Elevation

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    Alcohol is usually consumed with meals, but chronic consumption is a leading cause of alcoholic liver diseases. We investigated if shiitake extracts with a high lentinic acid content (Shiitake-H) and without lentinic acid (Shiitake-N) could suppress the elevation in plasma ethanol concentrations by accelerating ethanol metabolism and preventing ethanol absorption from the gut. Shiitake-H and Shiitake-N suppressed the elevation in concentrations of ethanol and acetaldehyde in plasma, and promoted the activities of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) and aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) in the liver. However, these effects of Shiitake-H were more prominent than those of Shiitake-N. Furthermore, Shitake-H promoted ADH and ALDH activities in the stomach. We also examined the change in plasma ethanol concentration by injecting Shiitake-H or Shiitake-N into the ligated loop of the stomach or jejunum together with an ethanol solution. Shiitake-H suppressed the absorption of ethanol from the stomach and jejunum. In conclusion, Shiitake-H accelerates ethanol metabolism in the stomach and liver and inhibits ethanol absorption in the stomach and jejunum indicating that lentinic acid is a functional component in shiitake

    Foraging activity of harbour porpoises around a bottom-gillnet in a coastal fishing ground, under the risk of bycatch.

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    Bycatch of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) by gillnets is a recognised threat to populations. To develop effective mitigation measures, understanding the mechanics of bycatch is essential. Previous studies in experimental conditions suggested foraging activity is an important factor influencing porpoises' reaction to gillnets. We acoustically observed the behaviour of wild harbour porpoises around a bottom-gillnet set-up in a commercial fishing ground, especially foraging activity. Passive acoustic event recorders (A-tags) were fixed to the ends of the gillnet, and recorded for 1 392 hours. Although harbour porpoises frequently and repeatedly appeared around the net each day, incidental bycatch occurred only three times during the observations. The stomach contents of two individuals contained mainly Ammodytes sp., which were observable around the bottom-gillnet but not targeted by the fishery. A total of 276 foraging incidents were acoustically detected, and 78.2% of the foraging activity was in the bottom layer (deeper than 25 m). Porpoises appeared around the net with more frequency on the day of a bycatch incident than on the days without bycatch. These results suggest that the harbour porpoises appeared around the bottom-gillnet to forage on fish distributed in the fishing ground, but not captured by this bottom-gillnet. Thus, porpoises face the risk of becoming entangled when foraging near a gillnet, with the probability of bycatch simply increasing with the length of time spent near the net. Bycatch mitigation measures are discussed

    Crucial role of TFAP2B in the nervous system for regulating NREM sleep

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    Abstract The AP-2 transcription factors are crucial for regulating sleep in both vertebrate and invertebrate animals. In mice, loss of function of the transcription factor AP-2β (TFAP2B) reduces non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. When and where TFAP2B functions, however, is unclear. Here, we used the Cre-loxP system to generate mice in which Tfap2b was specifically deleted in the nervous system during development and mice in which neuronal Tfap2b was specifically deleted postnatally. Both types of mice exhibited reduced NREM sleep, but the nervous system-specific deletion of Tfap2b resulted in more severe sleep phenotypes accompanied by defective light entrainment of the circadian clock and stereotypic jumping behavior. These findings indicate that TFAP2B in postnatal neurons functions at least partly in sleep regulation and imply that TFAP2B also functions either at earlier stages or in additional cell types within the nervous system

    Inversely Estimating the Vertical Profile of the Soil CO<sub>2</sub> Production Rate in a Deciduous Broadleaf Forest Using a Particle Filtering Method

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    <div><p>Carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) efflux from the soil surface, which is a major source of CO<sub>2</sub> from terrestrial ecosystems, represents the total CO<sub>2</sub> production at all soil depths. Although many studies have estimated the vertical profile of the CO<sub>2</sub> production rate, one of the difficulties in estimating the vertical profile is measuring diffusion coefficients of CO<sub>2</sub> at all soil depths in a nondestructive manner. In this study, we estimated the temporal variation in the vertical profile of the CO<sub>2</sub> production rate using a data assimilation method, the particle filtering method, in which the diffusion coefficients of CO<sub>2</sub> were simultaneously estimated. The CO<sub>2</sub> concentrations at several soil depths and CO<sub>2</sub> efflux from the soil surface (only during the snow-free period) were measured at two points in a broadleaf forest in Japan, and the data were assimilated into a simple model including a diffusion equation. We found that there were large variations in the pattern of the vertical profile of the CO<sub>2</sub> production rate between experiment sites: the peak CO<sub>2</sub> production rate was at soil depths around 10 cm during the snow-free period at one site, but the peak was at the soil surface at the other site. Using this method to estimate the CO<sub>2</sub> production rate during snow-cover periods allowed us to estimate CO<sub>2</sub> efflux during that period as well. We estimated that the CO<sub>2</sub> efflux during the snow-cover period (about half the year) accounted for around 13% of the annual CO<sub>2</sub> efflux at this site. Although the method proposed in this study does not ensure the validity of the estimated diffusion coefficients and CO<sub>2</sub> production rates, the method enables us to more closely approach the “actual” values by decreasing the variance of the posterior distribution of the values.</p></div

    Successful embolization of subcutaneous mesenteric varices within an ileal conduit in a patient with liver cirrhosis

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    Introduction Venous hemorrhage from ectopic varices is potentially fatal. This report describes a rare case in which bleeding from mesenteric varices in an ileal conduit was treated successfully by embolization therapy. Case presentation The patient was an 82‐year‐old man who had previously undergone total pelvic exenteration for colon cancer with creation of an ileal conduit for urinary diversion. He subsequently developed liver cirrhosis and underwent partial hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma. 9 years after his colon surgery, he was admitted with gross hematuria. Computed tomography revealed subcutaneous mesenteric varices in the ileal conduit and hemorrhage as a result of rupture of the varices. The bleeding continued despite repeated manual compression but was eventually stopped by embolization therapy. Conclusion Embolization therapy may be helpful for hemostasis in the event of intractable bleeding from mesenteric varices in an ileal conduit

    Evaluation of the effects of quercetin on damaged salivary secretion.

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    With the aim of discovering an effective method to treat dry mouth, we analyzed the effects of quercetin on salivary secretion and its mechanism of action. We created a mouse model with impaired salivary secretion by exposure to radiation and found that impaired secretion is suppressed by quercetin intake. Moreover, secretion levels were enhanced in quercetin-fed normal mice. To elucidate the mechanisms of these effects on salivary secretion, we conducted an analysis using mouse submandibular gland tissues, a human salivary gland epithelial cell line (HSY), and mouse aortic endothelial cells (MAECs). The results showed that quercetin augments aquaporin 5 (AQP5) expression and calcium uptake, and suppresses oxidative stress and inflammatory responses induced by radiation exposure, suggesting that quercetin intake may be an effective method to treat impaired salivary secretion
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